22 May 2009

Funk guitar is great fun to play. If you are familiar with a few blues guitar chords and scales then it is not too hard to get started. Today you've got a big collection of free on-line video lesson links to help you get into the groove.

Beginner Funk Lessons

The lowdown on funk strumming, muted strums and the incontournable James Brown chord, Yeah! I feel good...

Getting Harder

Here's some videos that get you adding little riffs, licks or chord movement to your basic funk strums. There are tons of ideas to explore here, so take your time (Bookmark this page to come back to it later).

Playing Funk - a cool funky groove with some chord movement from the UK's Guardian newspaper. Learn how to play the riff all over the neck. You can also get some accompanying articles on funk guitar with tab and audio.

Funk Guitar Basics - a series of 10 articles explaining the funk style and techniques. Lots of good ideas tabbed out for you.

That's a whole lot of funk for you to work on, so take your time. Bookmark this page so you can come back and work on the lessons at your own pace. And if you know a good funky guitar lesson that ought to be here, leave a comment below to share it.

Impressive List !I like the way you categorized this whole post according to the level of difficulty level. I deliver Guitar Lessons in Sunnyvale and i think sharing this list of you with my students would be great.